Whitelisting only digitally signed binaries

[Kevin Kofler]

McGuffey, David C. <DAVID.C.MCGUFFEY <at> saic.com> writes:
> Has any work taken place in the Linux community toward building a
> "trusted loader" into Linux.  If so, what is the status? If not, why
> not?

This would be against the very idea of Free Software, i.e. the right to freely 
modify your software and use such modified versions.
See e.g.: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/can-you-trust.html

        Kevin Kofler